Hello, I'm Brian
Front-end developer moving into solutions engineering. Through Insolla, my self-directed practice, I run the full technical sales motion, discovery calls, solution scoping, tailored demos, and proof-of-concept builds, shipping systems like RAG over live CRM data, identity policy automation, and document workflows.
Twelve years delivering customer-facing solutions inside regulated financial organizations, including OCC, TransUnion, and Marex, taught me to run stakeholder discovery, demo to technical and executive audiences, and integrate enterprise APIs under compliance and security constraints. Seeking Solutions Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or AI/Automation Engineer roles. Based in Chicago, open to remote, available immediately including contract work.
What I Know
Skills
AI & LLM
Automation & No-Code
Integration & Platform
Front-End
Pre-Sales
Where I've Been
Experience
Applied AI Engineering
Dec 2025 – PresentInsolla (Independent AI Practice) · Chicago, IL
- ›Practiced the complete pre-sales motion solo: discovery calls, solution scoping, tailored demos, and proof-of-concept builds, run end-to-end without a team.
- ›Produce the full pre-sales package: discovery guide, stakeholder map, technical walkthrough, security brief, and POV plan.
- ›Build proofs of concept against customers’ own systems, integrating CRM, document, and workflow platforms through REST APIs, webhooks, and iPaaS tooling, not canned data.
- ›Cut a small business’s social media workflow from 8 hours a week to 10 minutes with an automated content pipeline, scoped and delivered directly with the owner.
Lead Front-End Developer
Aug 2025 – Dec 2025TerraFort (Freelance)
- ›Led design and development of a web and mobile platform at an early-stage startup, executing product initiatives from concept to delivery.
- ›Owned vendor-facing technical evaluations, scoping and integrating third-party and AI tooling into the product.
Senior Front-End Developer
Jul 2024 – Jun 2025OCC (Contract) · Chicago, IL
- ›Ran weekly stakeholder sessions at a systemically important financial market utility, covering goal setting, live progress demos, and open-question resolution.
- ›Delivered React and TypeScript solutions from Figma through production; implemented Mock Service Worker to unblock front-end work from backend dependencies.
Lead Front-End Developer
Oct 2020 – Jan 2024Marex · Chicago, IL
- ›Led the program that digitalized broker and trader onboarding, replacing a compliance-heavy, paper-based workflow with a fully digital process and measurably shortening the onboarding cycle.
- ›Integrated the DocuSign API to digitize document signing across all products.
- ›Led a five-person front-end team delivering stakeholder-driven solutions; designed and ran the team’s internship program.
Earlier Experience
What I Build
Portfolio
Impact estimates are illustrative, modeled on the workflow each project targets, not measured client results.
In ProgressPOD Recovery Assistant
An independent Solutions Engineering case study: a controlled AI workflow that recovers missing proof-of-delivery documents for a freight brokerage, with SOP-grounded recommendations, human approval, and a full audit trail.
Est. impact: Modeled to cut ~240 hours/month of manual follow-up to a handful of human-reviewed exceptions.
In ProgressEmployee Access Lifecycle Assistant
An independent Solutions Engineering case study: a deterministic policy engine that evaluates employee role changes, routes risky access combinations for security review, and provisions through mock connectors with a full audit trail.
Est. impact: Modeled to cut ~52 hours/month of manual IT provisioning effort to policy-driven, auditable decisions.
Salesforce Intelligence
A retrieval-augmented chat assistant built on live Salesforce data, letting support and sales teams ask natural-language questions about accounts, cases, and escalations and get sourced answers instantly.
Est. impact: Turns a multi-record manual lookup across Cases, Accounts, and Opportunities into one sourced answer in seconds.
More projects
Narrower, faster builds shipped through Insolla, the same discovery-to-delivery process applied at a smaller scale.
Workflow Analyzer
Upload a process document, screenshot, or SOP and this tool extracts the workflow, then tells you exactly what to automate, which tools to use, and how many hours it will save each week.
Est. impact: ~2 hours of manual process mapping condensed into a 5-minute upload.
List Enricher
Upload a spreadsheet, describe the columns you want added in plain English, and get back a clean file enriched with real, web-researched data for every row.
Est. impact: Turns a multi-hour, row-by-row research task into one batch run.
SOP Generator
Describe a process in plain English or upload existing notes, and this tool turns tribal knowledge into a polished Standard Operating Procedure complete with roles, prerequisites, and quality checks.
Est. impact: Cuts SOP drafting from a half-day of writing to under 10 minutes.
Meeting Notes Analyzer
Paste in a transcript or raw notes and get a clean recap with action items, owners, due dates, decisions, and open questions ready to copy straight into your task tracker.
Est. impact: Turns 30 minutes of post-meeting note-cleanup into an instant recap.
Contract Analyzer
Upload any contract and get a plain-English summary, key dates, obligations on both sides, and severity-flagged risks worth pushing back on, all in about 30 seconds.
Est. impact: Cuts contract triage from ~45 minutes of manual review to under a minute.
What People Say
Testimonials
Brian and I worked together on the User Experience team, where he was brought in to assist with front end development of our UIUX projects. He did a great job of quickly jumping in to the mix to work on several of our internal projects, bringing a willingness to learn and a positive attitude to every project. He is also very eager to suggest new approaches to projects and brings an innovative, forward-thinking mindset. He is a talented, energetic and very enthusiastic developer and would be a great asset to any team.
Brian is a hard working & focused user interface and user experience developer. In our time working together at R1, Brian was consistently dedicated and focused on complex projects, often times putting in significant extra work to help the team meet deadlines. He worked equally well with local teams in the office as well as teams based in India. Good teammate that will help you bring your UI/UX to the next level.
From LinkedIn, earlier in my front-end engineering career.
Who I Am
About Me
It all started back in 2006 as a junior in high school when I dove into my fascination with websites and finally taught myself how to build one. While I initially participated in the world of web development for fun as a hobby, I quickly realized the rising demand for web development services and my freelance business was born.
I built myself a portfolio website, had business cards made, and went door to door to all of the businesses in the neighborhood, offering to build them a website or enhance their existing one. Before I knew it, my summer break turned into many late nights working on websites for all of my new clients and I couldn't have been happier.
Fast forward to my college graduation in 2013, I landed my first profesional developer role for a startup. This experience was like getting a master's degree as I got to wear a lot of hats and work with all kinds of different languages, tools, and technologies related to the web development world. I also got to work alongside senior level developers and learn about best practices as it pertains to this industry.
In the years since, I've had the pleasure of working across many different industries, building websites for professional sports teams, medical apps to assist doctors with their patients, onboarding tools for traders within the finance space, and much more.
Seven months ago I set out to build something different: Insolla, an independent AI practice where I run the full technical sales motion myself, discovery calls, solution scoping, tailored demos, and proof-of-concept builds, including a source-grounded RAG assistant over live Salesforce CRM data. It's been the best crash course in applied AI I could have asked for, and it's shown me where I want to go next: a pre-sales Solutions Engineer role that sits between customers and working systems.
